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Rules of Acquisition
Acquisition Of Empire
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Posted - 2013.08.02 02:02:00 -
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I am 50/50 on this.
On one hand, T2 small shield boosters and T2 large shield boosters are so worthless for anything at the moment it is hilarious. Who ever fits them to anything? You may as well go an ASB, refit for medium or XL, or go pimp. So this is good.
XL boosters seem fine at the moment, given they fit on everything from cruisers (Moa) to BC's (Cyclone/Sleip) to BS's (Mael). The former would go an XL-ASB, the latter can do XL vanilla and still get a reasonable tan. Is 15% more going to matter? For the Moa, yes. Cyclone/Sleip with vanilla XL booster...definitely. The Maelstrom...not so much.
Faction boosters are also OK. There's a variety, and uses for most (but not all) flavours of boosters on various fits. Narrowing the gaps with deadspace will see faction booster prices increase in some cases (DG LSB) and stay the same for others (CN smalls, eg, due to Pith A smalls being cap misers on the 2 Small Pith-A SB Tengu). This is in effect a buff to LP and low/null mission income and some missioner income, which is fine; people will cash LPs differently and choose different agents and corporations, which is a Good Thing.
Armour-wise...active armour tanks on frigates are already pretty damn good. However, we really, really need to take this in the context of the Command Ship changes. Active armour is more often the tanking method advantaged by OGB's in frig and cruiser combat. Very little is done to run Tengu links for active shield or buffer shield fleets - it is better to run skirmish for shield fleets as the sig benefit and mobility benefits for shield nano fleets are additive but buffing tank alone just defeats the purpose. ie; better to have 32km point 43% extra speed and 37% less sig than...bugger all more resists and slightly better Scythe or osprey reps.
This is not true for Armour frigs/cruisers where you already have a lower sig, and just need the rep and resist and buffer bonuses of a Legion/Damnation link. You can, in fact, make semi-active armour cruisers and frigs work. 1600 plate + MAAR AHAC is a thing and it works damn fine....does it need a 15% boost? To my mind, maybe not.
This doesn't hold true for BS's, where active BS tanks are as a rule, horrible for PVP. Even 15% is barely addressing the issue, even if you add gang links. You will still have to take drugs, and it's more effective to bring logi. Active armour tanks come nowhere near matching the DPS of one opponent of equal size, whereas in shield you can do Maelstroms which can tank one opponent easily.
So, not a panacea, but in some areas definitely a step in the right direction. But that's obvious; blanket changes don't address the red-headed step children.
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